UNIC - Institute For the Future

The Institute For the Future (IFF) at the University of Nicosia aims to educate leaders, develop knowledge and build communities to help society prepare for a future shaped by transformative technologies.

IFF was founded to explore the hypothesis that exponential technologies will cause rapidly accelerating societal change. Technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence are highly disruptive, even individually. However, as they reach commercial maturity and start becoming synergistic, they are expected to have compounding effects on the economy, social structures, legal systems, income distribution, governance, education, and warfare – and raise fundamental questions on how future society is organised.